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Hi all, I've been successfully using RIS to deploy images to my laptops and desktops for some time now (few years). Just recently, within the last few months, I am unable to image new models AND some of the older ones. I suspect this happened around the same time that I added new NIC drivers to the I386 directory. I've tested adding new NIC drivers for different NIC's all together and I cannot get it to deploy the image, it keeps coming up with... "The Operating System... blah blah blah, doesn't have the necessary driver to blah blah blah. In looking in the event logs, I am not getting a lot of these "information" events... Event Type: Information Event Source: BINLSVC Event Category: None Event ID: 1004 Date: 10/1/2007 Time: 1:41:43 PM User: N/A Computer: HQSVR01RIS Description: The description for Event ID ( 1004 ) in Source ( BINLSVC ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: HQ0018, %user%. This particular case, the image was pushed to the laptop. Here is another "information" event where it says the same thing but didn't work. Event Type: Information Event Source: BINLSVC Event Category: None Event ID: 1004 Date: 10/1/2007 Time: 10:50:09 AM User: N/A Computer: HQSVR01RIS Description: The description for Event ID ( 1004 ) in Source ( BINLSVC ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: HQDT20035, %user%. Any help would be appreciated, I can't image new machines so I'm stuck unless I want to do them all manually. Thanks, Chris

Thank you very much for the help! and I will take a look at the links you've provided me with. This should help alot!!! Chris

Taggs - thanks for your response! This makes more sense now... Question - If I create a flat image using Risetup.exe (as I already have done with XP PRO sp2 and Win2Ksp4), how do I go about adding applications to this image? What about an MST that I inlcude in a command line to install Office 2003 with this flat XPpro image? Also, you say " copy the image to a new directory (my personnal prefference! before anybody says anything) and then amend image. ( adding drivers, installing apps, changing cmdlines.txt copying files to image)" - would you suggest using RISetup.exe to install another flat image of Windows XP pro sp2 and then add apps and drivers etc... instead of copying the directory because don't I need RIS to create these directories? ASTRONOT - thanks for your response as well. I went and copied the user profile to the local administrator profile on the machine that I have the "master" image on. I then browsed to my RIS server via network places and fired off Riprep.exe. It tells me that 1) Multiple user profiles are detected (profiles include: Default User, Local Administrator and 2 Domain admins) - should I worry about this. Then on the next screen it tells me to shut down xxx services.. Well from the list of all of the services they mentioned, I was able to shut down all but 2 (Remote Access Connections and Telephony). Any idea why or any ideas how to force them to stop? Thanks to both of you for the kind help. Hoping to resolve a few more issues here before next week. Chris

Hi all, I'm running Windows 2003 server with RIS installed. I've loaded "Flat" CD images and was able to download them to my clients without any problems (XP and 2000). However, I just tried for the first time to send a (XPpro configured) RIPRep image to the RIS server and then download and install it on a client and I experienced the following problems. 1) seemed to of lost some config settings (windows profile configs and Office profile configs) 2) had to re-enter product key (after client install) 3) Desktop settings for default user profile were different Does anyone know if RIS is supposed to transfer these settings or is it just strictly OS and software apps with no config? My only idea about what went wrong is either RIS doesn't support config settings or since I had WinXPSP2 Firewall turned on, it wasn't able to transfer all of the files and configs. Any ideas? Also, is it even possible to load a RIPRep image to the server that will preserve Office profile settings (i.e. %username%, mail server name and "cached or non cached exchange mode")? Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks for the help! I removed the line disableadminondomainjoin and it worked.

Thanks for all of your help!!!

Hello, Can someone please help me with the line I need to add to my RISTNDRD.sif file to enable the local administrator account after a CD based install? I have 2 images 1) XP pro sp 2 and 2) Win2kpro sp4 and I'm using W2k3 server. When I run an RIS PXE install for XP pro, the local administrator account is disabled. Can anyone tell me where I can add a line to my .sif to have this account enabled after the install? Also, this account does not get disabled automatically in my W2K install, even though I'm pretty sure the .sif files are the same. This would be of great help! Thanks!!!

Hello, Can someone please help me with the line I need to add to my RISTNDRD.sif file to enable the local administrator account after a CD based install? I have 2 images 1) XP pro sp 2 and 2) Win2kpro sp4 and I'm using W2k3 server. When I run an RIS PXE install for XP pro, the local administrator account is disabled. Can anyone tell me where I can add a line to my .sif to have this account enabled after the install? Also, this account does not get disabled automatically in my W2K install, even though I'm pretty sure the .sif files are the same. This would be of great help! Thanks,